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...beginning, there were no thorns, and snakes spent their time not biting people but chatting with them. Only when man fell to temptation did the natural world receive a coating of evil. But according to Darwinism, the evil in nature lies at its very roots, instilled by its creator, natural selection. After all, natural selection is chronic competition untrammeled by moral rules. Heedless selfishness and wanton predation are traits likely to endure. If these things are sins, then the roots of sin lie at the origin--not just of humankind but of life...
They still did it fast. Diane English, the creator of Murphy Brown, was brought in as executive producer, and she scrapped virtually everything but the two stars (who are married to each other) and the basic premise--a divorced couple working together at a New York City newspaper. The show was rebuilt from scratch in just five weeks, starting with a brainstorming session that English convened with a handful of writers on Martha's Vineyard. "I flew in the day after Hurricane Eduoard and flew out the day before Hurricane Hortense hit," she says. "We thought it was very symbolic...
Millennium, produced by The X-Files creator Chris Carter and one of the most eagerly awaited debuts of the fall season, suffers from delivering its point too aggressively. The show is constantly contrasting the bleak offices and dark labs in which Black works to hunt the deranged cult leaders and sexual serial killers who are his prey, with the image of his blindingly yellow Seattle home, framed always by a blue sky that is eerie in its brilliance. Says Carter: "For me the whole reason to do the show was that yellow house--a bright center in a dark universe...
That is a glib but not entirely inaccurate description of The Laws of Our Fathers. Turow's handling of the courtroom scenes and legal intricacies remains several cuts above the popular competition, including the creator of Perry Mason. Trial buffs, their numbers swollen by O.J. and Court TV, will find plenty to chew over here, such as Sonny's private ruminations on the bench about hearsay testimony: "The reporters and onlookers seem baffled by the arcana of the rule which allows a witness to testify about what someone said she would be doing in the future but not what...
...evening also included a series of 30-second Heisenberg Certainty Lectures featuring as speakers Featherstone, Lipscomb, Karen Hopkins, creator of the "Studmuffins of Science" calendar, and a live chicken...